A few of my friends at Uni and I started a book circle two years ago. Last year one of us studied abroad so the book circle was a little on hold. This year, we are still not complete but we are going to give it a try anyway. It was my turn to suggest books this time. It was a close vote but we ended up picking The Little Shop of Happy Ever After by Jenny Colgan. We also have a new member trying out, I hope she will like this!

I have been baking a lot lately, trying new recipes. I have a journal where I collect recipes I find in books or on the Internet somewhere that I want to try. There are two cookbooks that I would love to glance through. The first one is Reese Witherspoon’s Whiskey In a Teacup. If I understand it correctly there are not only recipes in this one, there are also stories and tips included.

At the moment I keep myself quite busy. I am going my last year at Uni and in the evenings I sing in my choir, bobbin lace, do sports and try to find time to be with my boyfriend and my family. This weekend I have nothing planned and it feels very good. I think I am going to start the weekend by talking a walk and see if that apple tree my brother and I used to pass on our way home from school have any apples left to filch.

I have been pending back and forth on whether I should write this post in Swedish or English but settled on English because I found this tag on NightlyReading.

The Rules

Other than linking to the person who tagged you (or where you just happened to stumble over the tag), it would be splendid if there is a link back to the original tag post.

Pick a book that corresponds to the cookie’s ‘theme’.

Have fun!

Tag 1-3 people.

The Cookie Books

Chocolate Chip: A Classic Book That You Love or Really Enjoyed

I have always liked Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. There are more classics that would probably fit into this cookie but I chose this one because it is a story that fits everywhere. Whenever I find a book that is a re-telling of Pride and Prejudice I want to read it. The two latest read are Price and Prejudice and Zombies and Eligible.

Thin Mints: A Fandom That You Really Want to ‘Join’ AND/OR a Hyped-Up Book You Want To Read

I want to read Children of Blood and Boneby Tomi Adeyemi. I have heard a lot of good about this book, I hope I will enjoy it as much.

Shortbread: An Author You Can’t Get Enough Of

I was going to say that I recently found the author Erle Stanley Gardner. But that is not really true, I found him for quite some years ago. Buut, I always come back to reading his books. He has written plenty so I still have a couple left to go through.

I started writing this post when I was rewatching Gilmore Girls like a year ago but I decided that it was time to post it now. This is a post completely devoted to Gilmore Girls. And books of course.

First up, there is this list with all books that are mentioned in Gilmore Girls. I tried to do a quick count to see how many of these I have read. 13 out of 339. Of the rest, I think there are at least 4 books that are on my Z-says-read-this-shelf on Goodreads. How many have you read? It would be a nice good challenge to try to read the whole list, but some of them I do not want to read so I will probably not.

And, when I did some research on Goodreads, I found out that there are some Gilmore Girls-books! The first one in the series is called Like Mother, Like Daughter. I want to read them even though I am pretty sure I am going to get disappointed, my experience is that books that comes from a tv series is rarely as good as the series. They were super expensive when I looked it up, though, so I guess I will have to pass.

Two are unofficial guides (that I know of).

And a second cookbook is coming out! Eat Like a Gilmore Not that I really have tried cooking much from the first book yet. I have tried two pesto recipes (one was much better than the other one) and chai latte. The chai latte recipe was not a hit, too bad. The milk got weird when I did as the recipe described. I am not sure if there is a significant difference in how the milk is here to the US or if I just did something wrong.

All this talking about Gilmore Girls makes me want to watch it again. Or maybe the newly made quartet, I still haven’t seen the last two. They are a bit long.

How are you doing? Awesome, I hope. I hope we find a good time to Skype soon!

I am starting my last year of University tomorrow. It is a little sad that my summer is over but it also nice to get back into the everyday-life.

Did I tell you that I finally read the Lord of the Rings trilogy? I read the first book a couple of years ago but somehow some other books got in the way of starting the second one. Then too much time passed so I re-read the first before starting to the second. So, I have now read all three books. I like the books but there are so much information in them so it takes ages to read them! Have you read them? I have now seen the first two movies and will see the last one as well. Sometime. It is so long so I cannot just watch it whenever.

I remember liking The Hobbit as a child, I think I listened to the audiobook as well. I have heard mixed feelings about the Hobbit-films. I never saw them when they were in the theatres here – I thought they were too long, I want to be able to pause the film and take a break if they are too long. Have you watched them? Maybe I will watch them after I have seen the last Lord of the Rings movie?

I am trying on audiobooks. I am quite picky though so I have a hard time deciding what to listen to next. One of the first things I listened to was the entire Harry Potter series with Stephen Fry and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Now I am in between audiobooks, I have yet to figure out what to listen to next.

I think I am going to end this post with a book recommendation; The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller. My grandmother gave it to me for my birthday last year. It might be a little predictable but I found it cosy and quite feel-goody and there’s a lot of baking going on!